Now we understand why Real Madrid manager Carlo Ancelotti agreed with Brazil on Tuesday and the following day on Wednesday traveled to London to say that he was no longer a candidate for the national team manager’s job.
The Italian manager has simply received an offer that is five times what he agreed with Brazil on.
Carlo Ancelotti is once again at the center of an earthquake in the coaching market, this time from Saudi Arabia. Al-Hilal have made an offer that is hard to refuse: a contract worth 150 million euros for three seasons according to Relevo. The unexpected turn in negotiations with the Brazilian Football Federation (CBF) has opened up a new horizon for the current Real Madrid coach, whose immediate future seems more and more distant from the Bernabéu.
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The deal with the Brazilian Football Federation was almost done, and the announcement was imminent. Ancelotti confirmed at the last minute that he could not leave the club before the Club World Cup without compensation, a crucial condition for Brazil, which led to the call being cut off for good.
Real Madrid’s refusal to let him go without financial compensation has, according to internal sources, been the decisive factor.
Al-Hilal wants to hire Carlo Ancelotti
Amid this confusion, the Saudi Arabian offer is emerging as a powerful and tempting way out. Al-Hilal’s interest is not new, but now it is taking on a larger dimension with an offer that multiplies the coach’s current salary. At the same time, discontent is growing in Valdebebas over certain of Ancelotti’s recent attitudes, which seem more focused on his personal plans than on the decisive end of the season.
Brazil have already started to focus on Jorge Jesus who is actually in charge of AL-Hilal today, the job that he will lose to Carlo Ancelotti. Real Madrid still have no guarantees that Ancelotti will lead the team through June. What looked like a legendary farewell is beginning to fade away, as the Reggiolo coach considers one last major contract of his career.
We expect that at the press conference after Carlo Ancelotti has become the world’s highest-paid manager, he will demand to be believed when he says it is not the money, but the opportunity to help lift football in the desert country that was the reason he took the job.
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